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wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war

2

being upright and cleanhanded

1

strict observance of the Buddhist commandment that all priests should be celibate

1

to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice

3

long; drawn-out; very long

1

biological child; one's own child

1

inquiry into; enquiry into; prying (into); investigation; search; exploration

1

to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)

11

to smile

1

for use by men

1

to give an order; to place an order; to have made to order

1

hakama; man's formal divided skirt

3

to be prominent; to be conspicuous

1

to be imaginable; to be conceivable

1

to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem

1

Japanese and Chinese poetry; poetry; poems

1

attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession

2

birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin

1

to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify

1

first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface

1

all; everyone; everybody

1

several people

1

awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

1

last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier

1

withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction

1

to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it

1

suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta

1

to satisfy oneself (by doing); to find relief (in doing)

1

skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower

1

a long way off; matter for the future; not going to happen anytime soon

1

recovery; undoing; recall

2

firm promise; definite promise

2

dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)

1

pragmatist

1

spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming

1

extreme; extremity

1

to reach a situation about which nothing can be done

1

padre; title for Portuguese Jesuits (in Japan in the 16th century); Christianity; Christian

26

to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of

1

Catholicism

1

early Japanese Christianity (from the later Muromachi period); early Japanese Christian

1

missionary

3

propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work

4

close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)

1

(arch.) southern barbarians (formerly used by the Chinese to refer to non-ethnic Chinese to the south); (arch.) South-East Asia; (arch.) Western Europe (esp. Spain and Portugal, their South-East Asian colonies, and their goods and people arriving in Japan via the colonies); exotic (esp. Western European or South-East Asian style); (in dance, puppetry, etc.) thrusting the right foot and right arm forward at the same time (or left foot and left arm); nanban; dish prepared using chili peppers and Welsh onions

17

connection

1

arms and ammunition; weapons and ammunition

2

to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in

1

regular customer; valued client

1

rapid (e.g. progress)

3